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CONTENTS – PART I. ATOMS, MOLECULES AND CHEMICAL BONDING – I. Atom: Wave Nature and Configuration – II. Electron Clouds, Covalent and Ionic Radii – III. Molecular Orbitals – IV. Valence Bond Theory of Chemical Bonding – V. Hybridization – VI. Chemical Bonding and its Molecular Orbital Theory – VII. Coupling of Angular Momenta and Magnetic Moments – VIII. Transitional Elements – IX. Complexes, Ligands and Molecular Orbital Field Theory – PART II. NON-TRANSITIONAL ELEMENTS – X. Inert Gases of the Zero Group – Rare Elements of the Alkali Group – XI. Lithium – XII. Rubidium, Caesium and Francium – Rare Elements of the Alkaline Earth Group – XIII. Beryllium – XIV. Radium and Radon – Rare Elements of Boron-Aluminium Group – XV. Gallium – XVI. Indium – XVII. Thallium – Rare Elements of Carbon Group – XVIII. Germanium – Rare Elements of Oxygen-Sulphur Group – XIX. Selenium – XX. Tellurium and Polonium – XXI. Element 85, Alabamine or Astatine of Halogen Group – PART III. TRANSITIONAL ELEMENTS – XXII. Scandium – XXIII. Lathanide Series or Rare Earths – Rare Elements of the Titanium Sub-Group – XXIV. Titanium – XXV. Zirconium – XXVI. Hafnium – XXVII. Thorium – Rare Elements of the Vanadium Sub-Group – XXVIII. Vanadium – XXIX. Columbium or Niobium – XXX. Tantalum – Rare Elements of the Chromium Sub-Group – XXXI. Molybdenum – XXXII. Tungsten or Wolfram – XXXIII. Uranium – Rare Elements of the Manganese Sub-Group – XXXIV. Rhenium and Technetium – Platinum Metals – XXXV. Ruthenium – XXXVI. Rhodium – XXXVII. Palladium – XXX VIII. Osmium – XXXIX. Iridium – XL. Platinum – XLI. Actinium and Protoactinium – XLII. Trans-Uranium Elements – Rare Earth Homologues in the Actinide Series – Index –
